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Re: Backup devices - DLT or LTO? Advantages and disadvantages of each?

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From: Kralizec Craig
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 22:37

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Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net> writes:

>Kralizec Craig <cd@lios.apana.org.au> writes:

>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> It's time for me to look at a new backup strategy and I'm considering a DLT
>> array managed with Amanda (from "http://www.amanda.org"), but some people
>> have suggested I shouldn't even bother with DLT and go straight to LTO
>> instead.

>Speaking of LTO2 and amanda, does anyone has a good tapetype for LTO2
>tapes. I have seen quite a few different ones on the web, but don't know
>what to choose.

Not sure what you could use, but the Amanda users mailing list has people
talking about using LTO tape drives very regularly. Go to the Amanda site at
"http://www.amanda.org" and subscribe to the 'amanda-users' mailing list.

Regards,

Craig.

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